Wilson v. Shaw

This is an action in mandamus. The defendant Frank S. Shaw at the time of the commencement of the suit was the duly elected and qualified auditor of state of the state of Iowa and among other things is charged by law to issue warrants of the state of Iowa upon the treasurer of said state for sums due as salaries to the several district judges of the state. Plaintiff alleges “that on or about the 19th 'day of December 1917 he was duly appointed judge of the district court for the ninth judicial district of Iowa by the Hon. W. L. Harding, governor of the state of Iowa, to fill the vacancy…